3-26-16 ~ Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

"The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary."

~Ashleigh Brilliant

Beatles – Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Lyrics

Picture yourself in a boat on a river

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly

A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green

Towering over your head

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes

And she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Ah

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain

Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies

Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers

That grow so incredibly high

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore

Waiting to take you away

Climb in the back with your head in the clouds

And you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Ah

Picture yourself on a train in a station

With plasticine porters with looking glass ties

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile

The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Ah

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Ah

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Songwriters: LENNON, JOHN / MCCARTNEY, PAUL

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

This post is linked with:

Dezinaworld15 Cheeky Challenge

3-22-16 ~ When Eloise Was Only Six

"Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst."
~ Eugene Cernan

Enjoy Today ~ Time Flies

(mixed media from my art journal)

Precious Eloise at Age Six on a Hike in Rockbridge County

My only granddaughter will be 11 in just a few weeks.

I must enjoy today because time does fly by way too quickly.

3-18-16 ~ Painting on Gesso

Weezie, Genie and John as Youngsters 

On this picture, I used watercolors, Gesso, Galatos, and pen and ink.
My first attempt at using Gesso and painting over it.

February 19, 2016 ~ More Red and Lots More Love

 Leave All Things and Come with Me.

Let’s Dance

Reminisce

~ Did you ever take tap dancing as a child?

~Did you ever wear a frilly outfit like this?

~I took tap and adored it, but never did I sport an outfit like this one.

She is oh, so cute.

Sorry I cannot seem to photograph my journal evenly. It seems like one side is always a bit cut off. Actually they are straight. These two are on pages side by side, but to photograph them together makes them so small you cannot read the letters. Both of these collages were made with some old papers I had for the backgrounds, common doilies, cut and paste, typing, and Kim Klaassen’s "Softly" texture. The little girl with the tap shoes came from Reminisce Magazine.

This post is linked with:
Lunagirl Moonbeams - Love
Three Muses Challenge - Love
Moo Mania - Hearts

February 18, 016 ~ The Music of Love

Blogger has given me nothing but trouble today. To create this post has taken hours. It would not accept my pictures, and then after I finally got them to post I was left with these little boxes. I moved the pictures around in order to delete hoping they would go away, but NO luck.When I got up this morning it had printed my journal page five or six times at full size all over the post as well as the drawing of my granddaughter. I have deleted all of those and hope it is working correctly now.

This is another of my art journal pages.
I made an attempt at using watercolors, but it leaves a lot to be desired.
I have a long ways to go. It looks easy, but it's not!
I used watercolor paper that I pasted into my journal, watercolors, stamping,
pen and ink, cut and paste, and embossing. I intentionally scraped off some
of the embossing because I was trying to give the piece an aged appearance.

I am participating in the Creative Artiste-Mixed Media Challenge,

the  Lunagirl February Challenge, and  Art Journal Journey Monthly.

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Here is another shot of eloise and Sage sketching.
Of course, they are watching TV. I have them trained to watch 
House and Garden Channel with the Property Brothers and Fixer Upper.

This pen and ink was done by Eloise this weekend at age 10.
It is all freehand. 
It looks like she inherited her grandfather’s and dad’s art talents.

February 6, 2013 ~ True Love Is Forever

February 5 , 2016 ~ Love Special Delivery

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#14 ~ I Only Have eyes for You Series ~ I

“My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man.

 I will spend every day making sure that they know this."

~Russell Simmons

“Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.”
~Mae West

“I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn’t itch me.”
Gilda Radner

Look closely and you will see the eye that is on the women.
Click on the picture to enlarge it.

Thus post is linked with Pippa’s “Friends Meet Friends Once a Week”.

Pippa asks us what we have been doing this week. Well, I have been trying to learn how to combine my pictures and stock images to create some digital artwork. Oh, my, it is hard. One day I spent about 10 hours struggling with layers, textures, and cutting out stock pictures like in this one and getting onto the layer where I needed them to be.  Then I have had to figure out how to move them to a location I like. I created a post card series “I Only Have Eyes for You” years ago, but now I am going to try to create a new one with digital images. The love of learning something new and perseverance are the name of the game.